Netflix's father-son crime drama "All Day and a Night" is flawed but affecting; a nervy, deeply felt drama that gets a little lost on its winding path to redemption but still finds a way home
Moonlight's Ashton Sanders gives a compelling lead performance; It's a messy world and Joe Robert Cole refuses to make it more palatable for us, inspiring tough questions while withholding easy answers
an earnest but unrewarding disappointment; the storytelling, while attempting to marry gritty realism with poetic introspection, is unsatisfying from the start due to director Cole's problematic access to the father and son at the narrative's cent
a sober but dramatically inert crime saga; an ambitious drama from the co-writer of "Black Panther"; It's a matter of semantics, but if this is a film that often flubs the little things, it gets the most important detail right
"All Day and a Night" is a flawed drama that doesn't quite live up to its promise. But Joe Robert Cole's ambition and skill renders it worthwhile viewing
